California NEMT news

California Has No NEMT Broker — Here’s How Medi-Cal Transportation Actually Gets Contracted

No Modivcare, no MTM statewide: Medi-Cal routes NEMT through managed-care plans and PAVE enrollment. The path, step by step.

Data: What Workers’-Comp Ratings Say About California Passenger-Transport Operators

NEMT Wire analysis of 13 months of WCIRB experience-rating publications for class 7382 — median mods, the county spread, and a warning in the year-over-year numbers.

How Medicaid NEMT Contracting Actually Works

Broker networks, managed-care carve-ins, fee-for-service, county rides: the four ways an operator gets paid, and how to break into each.

Who Runs Medicaid NEMT in Your State? The 2026 Broker Map

Brokers, non-broker states, regional models and managed-care carve-ins — the contracting landscape every operator has to navigate, in one reference.

California: the State Auditor says ride companies overbilled Medi-Cal nearly $31 million in mileage in one year — and DHCS didn't catch it

Watch list: Colorado at 60 days, Michigan bids closed, CRUSH still at OMB, DC, Wisconsin, CMTA Friday

Watch list: New Mexico Sunday, CMTA next Friday, DC, Wisconsin, Maryland

California: CMTA posts a draft NEMT bill and sets its annual meeting for November 6 in Burbank

Revalidation: the off-cycle wave CMS ordered in April hits Texas, Montana and Illinois — with unannounced site visits attached

Federal: the CMS fraud rule that names NEMT is at the White House — and CMS wants to rebuild its fraud contractors by November 4

Operations: MediRoutes moves dispatch into the browser, a week after shipping trip-history ETAs

Rideshare: Uber says more than half of states have approved it for Medicaid rides

Federal: a House bill would make electronic trip verification a Medicaid requirement for NEMT starting January 1, 2027

Ohio: GPS trip verification is now state law for Medicaid NEMT — effective October 6, full compliance due within 18 months